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As cliche is it to cry whataboutism, this clearly is. Incrementalism is better than nothing. Sanctimony is FUD. If even one company is suffers at least it’ll serve as a warning to …

G Gundam might've been the most uncomplicated, yet wrong , series to introduce the American mass market to the franchise.

This essay about it is a good watch- it concludes that IBO might be a cynical and dark show rooted in realism, but the ending is hopeful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNRjwktvPV…

If you like IBO, you might enjoy this essay, which analyzes its sociopolitical content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNRjwktvPV8

Essentially your argument is “if you don’t like it so much why don’t you move?” which must feel satisfying to trot out but is obviously fatuous.

Is that what Salman Rushdie called them?

Looks like that attribution is missing. Dubious provenance, probably a later addition. Next!

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? A…

"You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his broth…

If you have such disdain for this community, you can always go to a different website instead of begging to be banned for being abrasive and tiresome.

Twitter thread: https://x.com/MKVRiscy/status/1893590632901595491

Apple is a huge organization with a lot of internal variance. Knew someone doing localization testing for Siri and reported severe understaffing issues. There are some very small t…

Indeed. https://scroll.in/article/1023979/from-outsiders-to-termites...

Hey, it's the author of the tweet quoted by the article!

Amartya Sen, "Human Rights and Asian Values," The New Republic, July 14-July 21, 1997 > In Buddhist tradition, great importance is attached to freedom, and the traditions of earlie…

Sounds like culture doesn't mean much when even the lands where the culture originated from willingly discard the cultural elements that lead to more children and larger families, …

How do you explain what happens outside of America? https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...

Has anyone left software engineering to study something not in the sciences? How did that go?

Sounds great, you've really found the place for you. Only question is: what are you doing posting on HN then?

> instead created industries that were propped up on instable economics Ah, perhaps then it is appropriate to praise them in tech startup related spaces.

It’s interesting history and good analysis but the whole framing just seems ill-conceived. “Business operational lessons from the great bloodthirsty marauders of history” works as …

Then perhaps it is different in that South Asian nations don’t seem themselves as successors to Britain, whereas many peoples the Romans conquered claimed their imperial mantle as …

> Can the French or British find things to admire about the Romans? The statute of limitations have passed on those crimes since they took place in Antiquity. > First, the article …